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<blockquote data-quote="travish" data-source="post: 493384" data-attributes="member: 31902">Hi All,Apologies if this has been asked and answered somewhere, but I am starting to do some microscopy photography with my Nikon D5300 and an adapter (on manual mode). Anyway since there is a slight difference between the eyepeice focus (of the microscope) and the camera focus I find it much easier to use live-view and just focus that way.As the screen is fairly small, I thought since it has a mini HDMI port I might be able to use live view that way but am I correct in thinking live view won't work through the HDMI output?I have tried a few settings, and I can get the display to mirror to a monitor but not display the live view. When i try it goes to fire up live view, disconnects the monitor and goes back to the menu.Is this something that can be achieved another way, e.g. using the AV out (with live view) or can live view only work with the camera display?Many thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="travish, post: 493384, member: 31902"] Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked and answered somewhere, but I am starting to do some microscopy photography with my Nikon D5300 and an adapter (on manual mode). Anyway since there is a slight difference between the eyepeice focus (of the microscope) and the camera focus I find it much easier to use live-view and just focus that way. As the screen is fairly small, I thought since it has a mini HDMI port I might be able to use live view that way but am I correct in thinking live view won't work through the HDMI output? I have tried a few settings, and I can get the display to mirror to a monitor but not display the live view. When i try it goes to fire up live view, disconnects the monitor and goes back to the menu. Is this something that can be achieved another way, e.g. using the AV out (with live view) or can live view only work with the camera display? Many thanks! [/QUOTE]

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